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This is an open access book. Europe faces significant challenges in the coming decades: geopolitical, demographic, technological, increased competition, climate-related, and health issues due to an aging population, to mention a few. Given these challenges, technological progress and new ways of handling complex issues will be key to continued prosperity and growth. To accomplish a growth process driven by innovation and entrepreneurship, the institutional environment must take into account a multitude of different policy areas that interact to either strengthen or weaken an economy's innovative potential. Innovation is not only about R&D and higher education but is also intimately related to entrepreneurship. Similarly, entrepreneurship is not only about low start-up costs and favorable tax rates. Hence, a consistent and coordinated policy environment conducive to innovation and entrepreneurship is required to translate innovation into high-growth firms and macro-level growth. This book presents the basic cornerstones required to provide a policy regime that can nurture such dynamics. The authors draw extensively on empirical analysis of the development of the Swedish economy, which has been transformed from a so-called "sclerosis" state in the 1980s until the early 1990s to an economy characterized by successful entrepreneurship and innovation. This transformation resulted from a reform agenda that has been gradually rolled out, beginning in the mid-1980s. The authors argue that the Swedish experience provides useful lessons for other nations as well.

This open access book raises some central questions: Do we need moonshot policies to spur innovation and economic growth? What are the risks associated with such policies? Economic turbulence, the COVID-19 pandemic, and mounting environmental concerns have paved the way for a renaissance of targeted industrial policy. In particular, the idea that society should be organized around large missions is gaining momentum among high-income economies. However, the authors and editors of this volume contend that this shift has occurred without much critical examination, especially as the European Union has adopted these ideas, and Western economies are now increasingly organizing toward the achievement of large, state-formulated goals. Recognizing the urgent need for continued scholarly attention to question notions of the mission economy, more than 20 scholars discuss the dangers of top-down/vertical approaches to industrial policy and draw attention to the progress of independent enterprise, entrepreneurialism, and market solutions in a sound economy and society. By critically examining mission-oriented innovation policies, using theoretical perspectives and empirical investigations, the book highlights both the mechanisms behind failed missions and alternative approaches. This is a must-read for policy researchers and policymakers alike.

Part I1.An Overview of Corruption and Public ProcurementSope Williams and Jessica Tillipman2. Concepts inCorruptionAlexandra Wrage and Joshua BirenbaumPart II3.Procurement Corruption and Artificial Intelligence: Between the potential of enabling data architectures and the constraints of due process requirementsAlbert Sanchez-Graells4.Data Analytics for Anti-Corruption in Public ProcurementViktoriia Poltoratskaia and Mihály Fazekas5.Corruption and COVID-19 ProcurementGeo Quinot6.Emergency Procurement and CorruptionGabriella M. Racca and Christopher Yukins7. Corruption in Healthcare ProcurementGul Saeed and Jillian Clare Kohler8.Corruption and Defence ProcurementDan Schoeni9.Corruption in Public-Private Partnership ProcurementGeorge Nwangwu10.Procurement Corruption in the World Bank GroupCollin Swan and Belita Manka11.Gender, Procurement, and CorruptionAnna Petherick12.Corruption in Small- and Medium-Sized EnterprisesDavid Robbins, Sati Harutyunyan, and Michelle Onibokun13.Corruption and Beneficial OwnershipTymon Kiepe14. How Behavioural Insights Can Enrich Anti-Corruption Measures in Public ProcurementFrédéric Boehm and Alexandra Leidtke15.Whistleblowers and Winning the Battle Against Government Contract Fraud: You can't have one without the otherTom Devine, Samantha Feinstein, and Jack A. Kolar16.Corruption and DebarmentTina Søreide, Erling Hjelmeng, and Theresa GeyerPart III17.AustraliaAdam Graycar, Stuart Macintyre, and Ashlee Joyce18. BrazilCesar Pereira and Mayara Gasparoto Tonin19.ColumbiaAna Victoria Christoff20.FranceEmmanuel Breen21.HungaryTünde Tátrai22.IndiaSandeep Verma23.IsraelHadas Peled, Ayelet Simon-Vekslar, and Shira Spierer24.ItalyFederica Marconi25. KenyaStephen Magu26.MexicoBonnie J. Palifka and Diego Cuellar Lasso27.NigeriaSope Williams28.RussiaLeslie Holmes29. South AfricaJonathan Klaaren, Florencia Belvedere, Ryan Brunette, and Nomtha Gray30.TanzaniaEmmanuel Maliganya31.UkraineAndrii Biletskyi32.United KingdomMichael Bowsher 33. United StatesJessica Tillipman

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